Sacramento Auto Repair

Preparing for a Memorial Day road trip involves ensuring your vehicle is in good condition and equipped with essential items for a safe and enjoyable journey. Here's a checklist to help you get started: General Inspection: Check the overall condition of your vehicle, including tires, brakes, lights, and windshield wipers. Look for any signs of leaks or damage. Ensure your vehicle registration and insurance are up to date. Fluids: Check and top up the engine oil, coolant, brake fluid, power steering fluid, and windshield washer fluid. Tires: Inspect the tire tread depth and condition. Replace any worn-out tires. Ensure all tires are properly inflated, including the spare tire. Verify the tire pressure using a tire pressure gauge. Battery: Examine the battery terminals for corrosion. Clean them if necessary. Test the battery's charge and consider replacing it if it's old or weak. Lights: Check that all headlights, taillights, brake lights, turn signal ... read more

Preventative Maintenance for your vehicle is important to keep up with, as it will increase the efficiency of how your vehicle runs, and drives, and increase the longevity of your vehicle's major components. In this article, you will find several reasons why you will want to and must get into the habit of Preventative Maintenance for your vehicle.  Safety: Regular maintenance helps to ensure that your vehicle is operating safely. For example, here at Sacramento Specialty Automotive, we have seen numerous occasions where a customer comes in stating that their vehicle is taking a lot longer to stop when exiting the highway, or their vehicle is pulling them into the next lane over! This is a very unsafe driving condition caused by neglecting regular maintenance and now the repairs are costly because we waited too long to address them.  Reliability: Preventative maintenance will save you from unexpected part failures, causing breakdowns and other mechani ... read more